Sorry for the long hiatus; work has had me swamped for a while. I recently committed to posting weekly over at Mormon Mentality, so I figure that I should be able to do as well here. Stay tuned. ..bruce..
Can’t believe it’s been over two months since I posted here. Of course, I’ve been neglecting all my blogs, but this one has been particularly neglected. I’ll do better. Honest.
I’ve got a work project that’s kept me in California for most of the past 6 weeks and is taking me back tomorrow night. It’s been intense enough, the hours long enough, that I’ve had little energy left to post here or on my other blogs. But I’ve got some things to post about, and I’ll try to do at least one each week.
In the meantime, here’s my first honest-to-goodness struggle with COVETING in some time. Fear not; the fever dream has faded; if we get a second car, it will likely be one of the aging $2000 pickup trucks parked by roadsides in our neck of the woods. But it was a nice few weeks. ..bruce..
Aha! I appear to have Google’s blessing again. This whole process was much quicker than my prior Google-banning experience with another of my blogs. ..bruce..
The delete-and-restore process deleted all user IDs, so you’ll need to register again to leave comments. Sorry! ..bruce..
This site appears to have been hacked with a bunch of link redirections inserted in the front page, which is why Google purged me from their indices. I did an XML backup of the site’s contents, wiped out my entire public_html directory, reinstalled the latest version of WordPress, and then restored the contents. If you run into flakiness, that’s why. ..bruce..
It appears that this site was purged completely from Google sometime on the evening of December 6th. I have no idea why. This means, of course, that not only are no Google searches coming to this site, but that the site has likely lost whatever ‘authority’ it had in the Google search algorithm.
Anyone with suggestions as to why this may have happened? ..bruce..
One of my favorite features of the Sitemeter monitoring service that I subscribe to is that I can see the actual search strings that people typed into Google or other search engines that led them to this blog. The single most common set of search strings combine “Mormon” or “LDS” with “Obama”. A fair number of people do searches on “adventures in mormonism”, for reasons that entirely escape me (I chose the name based on a lingering fondness for the late 80s movie, “Adventures in Babysitting”). But what I find most fascinating are the one-off searches that somehow lead here. Here are a few recent example; quotes are from the search strings themselves; all typos and grammatical errors are preserved:
Those are all hits within the last 3 weeks (and taken from the most recent 2000 hits on this blog). ..bruce..
This website purports to rate the reading level of a given blog. Here’s its rating for this blog:
I’d like to think it’s because of the thoughtful and intellectual nature of the posts here. But it probably just shows that I’m pedantic. (If you think that’s bad, check out my business website.) ..bruce..
…it’s just me, trying out some new WordPress themes on this site. If you see one you like (or don’t like), just leave a comment and let me know.
[UPDATED 12/06/07] I’ve also been working to redirect all AIM web traffic from the old site to the new one. If you get any broken links, please let me know. ..bruce..
